14: Dissecting Global Civil Society: Values, Actors, Organisational Forms

Civil Society in West Asia Working Paper Series

Tags: Iran , Syria , Civil Society in West Asia

What we see in global civil society depends on what value lens we use to define it. The trend towards networked organisation may have emancipatory effects, but may also obscure inequalities and clashing values. Working Paper 14 systematically describes the different expectations people have of global civil society. Each of us, Marlies Glasius suggests, carries a slightly different picture of the concept in our head. She describes the different normative connotations, normative ideal types, the new actors (or not so new actors) and the trends in global civil society.